bear upon vs expose

expose vs bear upon

bear upon is not a noun while expose is a noun.

bear upon and expose both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bear upon	No	No	Yes	No
expose	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, expose is a hyponym of bear upon; that is, expose is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bear upon:

bear upon: have an effect upon
expose: put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

Other hyponyms of bear upon include strike a blow, repercuss, tell on, redound, excite, stimulate, process, treat, hydrolise, hydrolize, color, colour, distort, tinge, endanger, peril, queer, scupper, hit, strike, subject, bother, discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble, act upon, influence, work, slam-dunk.

bear upon (noun)	expose (noun)
	the exposure of an impostor or a fraud

bear upon (verb)	expose (verb)
have an effect upon	abandon by leaving out in the open air
	expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
	make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
	put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
	remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
	to show, make visible or apparent
	expose to light, of photographic film
	expose or make accessible to some action or influence
	reveal to view as by removing a cover

Difference between bear upon and expose

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